Migrating i386 to amd64

[Ade Lovett]

Michael Reifenberger wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Ade Lovett wrote:
> ...
> 
>> 1.  Back up your data
>> 2.  Insert native amd64 miniinst cdrom

[snip]

> Do my old i386 ports (like X etc) work under amd64?

Simple answer.  No.  Steps (1) and (2) above are implying a complete 
binary system reinstall.  Part of the data you should probably be 
backing up is a list of installed packages so you can put the amd64 ones 
back in after installing kernel+userland.

-aDe